Who was the emotional cripple?
I'm just asking.
Physician, heal thyself...
Always the officiant, never the bride. http://www.withthiskissitheewed.com
Know this is a 4 year old post, but I had the same reaction!
"It's the system, Lara. People will be different after the Revolution."
Yeah, it didn't really seem like her elevator went all the way to the top, but I guess it could be argued that it was the stress of her health situation...
Mag, Darling, you're being a bore.
I disagree. Here is how I see it: Sara has gone through long, stressful and unsuccessful attempts to cure her. She understands that she has very little time left. She wants to be able to face death on her own terms, which means to both create distance from the ties that bind and to have a positive effect on people while she is here. This is solution that she's arrived at. It works for her. Also, it's implied that, by this particular November, that she may be nearing the end of her run. I don't feel this implies emotional disability. I feel this is how Sara has decided to spend her last days. She will regret not having Charlie, more than she will regret not having any of her other "months"; but she will not have been what she considers a burden on him in her very last days. At the end, Charlie understands, too. That's why he's able to leave her. He does what Alonzo asks: hold her hand till she asks him to let go. Then he does.
shareSo then you do agree with my theory that it was the stress of her health situation which caused her to be that way.
Mag, Darling, you're being a bore.
I agree that her health situation directed her decisions, but I disagree that "her elevator didn't go all the to the top". I think that she had decided this was how she wanted to spend her remaining time on earth: making a difference to people she felt could benefit from a month of being "different" from their normal selves. And she had decided that she did not want to draw close enough to any lover to whom she might end up a burden.
This is eccentric, but not ditzy: in at least two cases: Charlie and Clem, she had, indeed made a positive impression, and they are better people as a result of their month with her. I do agree that, if she hadn't become terminally ill, it's likely she would never have considered this sort of existence. But it's a significant marker of her character that, facing an early death, she has decided to devote time to making others' lives a little better. If that is ditzy, I would wish that more of us were.
I disagree that "her elevator didn't go all the to the top".
Sorry, I said it seemed like it (mentally and/or emotionally), but that it could be argued it was the stress of her health situation.
if she hadn't become terminally ill, it's likely she would never have considered this sort of existence.
I'm glad you put it that way, because it's a good reminder that we didn't get to see what she was like before her diagnosis.
Mag, Darling, you're being a bore. share